COLIN FARRELL - FARRELL: ‘WEIGHT LOSS IS HEALTHY

Actor COLIN FARRELL has sparked fears for his health after he appeared at a press conference looking alarmingly gaunt - but he insists he’s merely shedding weight for a film role.
Farrell, 31, shocked reporters when he showed up to promote his upcoming movie Triage - in which he plays a war reporter in 1990s Bosnia - during a trip to Spain.

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Obesity and global warming, Atkins and weight loss, the gecko and the egg

Heavy people strain the environment

Obesity is a global responsibility that is contributing to global warming, according to Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Writing in the medical journal the Lancet, they said heavy people use more fuel and food, contribute to rising prices and will speed warming. They estimate that an obese person needs 18 percent more calories than a person of normal weight to maintain their weight and perform daily activities, and they use more fuel since thin people are more likely to walk. But some say the idea that obese people contribute to global warming isn’t sound because a lot of food overproduction is related to waste…

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Baptist Hospital East offering weight-loss surgery

Baptist Hospital East has now added gastric banding surgery to its list of services.

The surgery is performed by making a series of small incisions in the abdomen, which allows the gastric banding system to be placed around the top of the stomach. This creates a smaller stomach pouch, resulting in the ability to control hunger and “achieve a feeling of fullness,” according to a news release.

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Mom Develops Online Weight-Loss Plan

DENVER — If you’re a mother, you know what it’s like to put everyone else before you. Your kids, your husband, maybe even your pets, then you. For Christina Schneider, loving her kids was easy, but finding time to love herself was the challenge.

“I just had two kids. It was time to try to get somewhat back into shape,” said Schneider.

Schneider decided to try an online program, designed just for her. IncentaHealth came up with the idea to help companies trying to shape up their working staff. Working with Physicians’ Fitness Coach and New West Physicians, IncentaHealth wanted to provide the tools for participants to lose weight and keep it off.

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Dairy Still Doesn’t Help with Weight Loss

Not a magazine goes by it seems without a dairy ad extolling milk’s (or another dairy product’s) role in weight loss - this of course despite the fact that Big Milk in the U.S. admitted that there was insufficient evidence to suggest or refute that milk has any weight-related benefits after being confronted by the FTC.

Well guess what? A new meta-analysis came to a different conclusion - it came to the conclusion that dairy products do not help with weight.

“Of 49 randomized trials assessing the effect of dairy products or calcium supplementation on body weight, 41 showed no effect, two demonstrated weight gain, one showed a lower rate of gain, and five showed weight loss. Four of 24 trials report differential fat loss. Consequently, the majority of the current evidence from clinical trials does not support the hypothesis that calcium or dairy consumption aids in weight or fat loss.”

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Innovative Swiss Programme Offers New Hope For Long Term Weight-loss

Successful long-term weight loss for obese patients can be achieved without drugs using a low-cost approach that involves innovative intensive therapy followed by long term support, new research shows.

Swiss researchers found that more than half a group of morbidly obese patients maintained a 10 kg weight reduction and overall 70% of their patients succeeded in avoiding further weight gain after five years.

“This is a phenomenal success rate. Finding a way to help patients maintain their weight loss over a long period of time is difficult and these findings show that it is indeed possible for many people,” said the study’s leader, Dr. Séverine Buclin of the University Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Q&A with Dr Thomas Stuttaford on tackling weight loss

Dr Thomas Stuttaford is away next week. His next online forum will be live after 1pm on May 28. The topic is: how to treat hay fever and summer colds? To ask the doctor your question on this topic and to read other recent topics he has answered click here

Q1: I am 59, live in France and have a sedentary occupation, pretty much desk-bound in my home office, have an underactive thyroid for which I am taking Levothyrox at 50mg per day. I have had a weight problem since the age of ten and so I grew up being very aware of the right things to eat and I am very strict with myself. I actually don’t like sweet foods and I stick to a healthy, balanced diet that includes fresh fruit and vegetables, low-fat meats and slow-burning carbohydrates, usually totalling an average of 1200 to 1500 calories per day.

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Weight Loss for All the World to See

A growing number of successful losers keep accountable by blogging about their weight loss efforts. In today’s Lean Plate Club column, meet Shauna Reid–also known as Dietgirl. (I was delighted to learn that the Lean Plate Club is one of the things that helped inspire Shauna’s efforts.) By the way, Shauna has lost half her body weight. The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl, a book detailing her odyssey, will soon be published in the U.S.

Also meet Gerry Pugliese. He writes the DiseaseProof blog for Dr. Joel Fuhrman. Gerry was lean until after college, when a difficult job interfered with his workouts and he turned to food to soothe his stress. Sound familiar? Gerry has lost about 60 pounds by eating smart with a diet that is mostly vegetable based and moving more, including discovering yoga.

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GSK petition claims weight loss supplements have no science

A petition by drug firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) requesting that weight loss claims be treated as disease claims maintains that there is no credible science to back up weight loss ingredients used in dietary supplements.
GSK filed the petition at the end of last month, together with the American Dietetic Association, The Obesity Society and Shaping America’s Health, an association for weight management.

It maintains that obesity and overweight are significant risk factors for certain diseases, and so products promoting weight loss should be treated as drugs. However, the petitioners also claim that “there is no credible evidence whatsoever to support any type of qualified health claim for a weight loss supplement”.

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Drug petition could strip supplements of weight loss claims

A petition filed with the US FDA calling for the agency to treat weight loss claims as disease claims could wipe the weight loss category from the dietary supplement map.
The citizen petition was filed at the end of last month by drug firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) together with the American Dietetic Association, The Obesity Society and Shaping America’s Health, an association for weight management.

The petitioners are asking the Food and Drug Association (FDA) to prevent dietary supplement products from claiming they can promote, assist or otherwise help in weight loss. Such claims, they say, should be considered as disease claims.

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The Integrated Approach to Weight Loss

Content provided by Mayo Clinic Health Solutions

(ARA) - Two-thirds of American adults are overweight and one in three are considered to be obese. An integrative approach can be an effective strategy for losing weight or maintaining a healthy weight.

“This is a transitional time in medicine. New therapies and treatments, once called alternative, are emerging to meet the needs of our physical, mental and spiritual health. Good health is more than your physical health because you are more than just a body,” says Dr. Brent Bauer, director of complementary and integrative medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. “This blending of the best of conventional and alternative medicine is known as integrative medicine.”

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Top Secret Fat Loss Secret Offers an Alternative to the Usual Diet for Weight Loss

Top Secret Fat Loss Secret is now available at www.topsecretfatlosssecret.com This fat loss program offers people seeking to lose weight and keep it off an alternative to the regular diet and exercise routine. Top Secret Fat Loss Secret targets plaque and parasites in the body that hold onto food in order to live in colons and bowels. Dr. Susanne Gudakunst explains on this website how these parasites come to be and why they are harmful to the body and detrimental to weight loss. This cleansing system rids the body of such plaque and parasites. The Top Secret Fat Loss Secret is available in two affordable packages; the Pro Version and the Hardcore Elite Version, discounts on those prices are currently available.

Dr. Susanne Gudakunst weight loss system targets unhealthy parasites in the body surviving in the colon and bowels on semi-digested food matter. The Top Secret Fat Loss Secret claims to be the secret system that is otherwise left unspoken of by 99% of weight loss experts and other doctors. The reason behind this is other systems work on a cyclical effect at depend on people remaining unhealthy in order to sell these systems, programs, and diets many times to make more money off the consumer. Dr. Susanne boasts a level of compassion for all people and wants them to uncover the truth behind this other approaches to weight loss that are difficult. The Top Secret Fat Loss Secret cleanses the body of harmful parasites making it possible for the weight to come off and stay off.

Top Secret Fat Loss Secret aims to be the solution to people in a situation where everything else has failed, not of their own doing but because of the unhealthy choices around them. Even when eating seemingly healthy choices, parasites and plaque form in the colon and bowels holding onto food so it can survive. This food they live on remains in the body staying on as excess, unhealthy weight. If these parasites are not addressed they can mineralize, not unlike a fossil, in the human body and become potentially dangerous. In this situation it may become impossible for nutrients to be absorbed properly by the body. Dr. Susanne boasts the Top Secret Fat Loss Secret is the answer to these dangerous parasites and ultimately the answer to shedding those dangerous extra pounds.

Top Secret Fat Loss Secret, now available at www.topsecretfatlosssecret.com, is the alternative to regular diet and exercise. This system of weight loss cleanses the body of potentially dangerous parasites living in the human body. Dr. Susanne Gudakunst believes it is the secret answer to weight loss in modern day life.

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Calories count, but what about fat, sugar and carbs?

Kevin Kopjak doesn’t care much about carbs, fat, sodium or high fructose corn syrup.

He generally reads only two things on a nutrition label: the portion size and the calories. He says the strategy has helped him lose and keep off 100 pounds.

“Counting calories seems to work for me,” says Kopjak, 29, of San Francisco, Calif., who initially did Atkins and several other diets before switching to counting calories. “But it’s a lot of discipline. When I first started, I had an Excel log, where I literally wrote everything I ate down.”

Kopjak may be on to something. The past few decades have brought us diets like Atkins, Sugar Busters, The Zone, Slim Fast and Jenny Craig.

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The Costs of Weight on Business

Epidemic or not, the rate of obesity in the U.S. has skyrocketed in recent decades. Those extra pounds can be as bad for an employer’s bottom line as they are for a person’s health and waistline.

In the last 30 years, the rate of obesity in the United States has more than doubled. In a 1976-1980 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the prevalence of obesity among adults aged 20-74 years was 15 percent. In 2003-2004, NHANES found that number had increased to 32.9 percent.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 32 percent of adults in the U.S. are overweight and 34 percent are obese, as defined by the World Health Organization. Likewise, a recent Conference Board report entitled Weights and Measures: What Employers Should Know about Obesity determined that 34 percent of American adults currently fit the definition of “obese.”

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Diet pills in the time of rice shortage

Hi, boys and girls, it’s no longer that cool to talk about dieting and staying thin.

As you may know, we are facing a global food crisis. The threat of a shortage in the supply of rice and some other essential foods seems real enough. The United Nations, among other august international agencies, has warned about “social unrest on an unprecedented scale” if the crisis is allowed to worsen.

So, stop preaching the gospel of dieting. You’re not going to be so callous as to tell your starving neighbor that skipping meals will make him or her look good. Food crisis or not, the obsession with thinness is beginning to be challenged in some trendy circles. It’s about time.

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Mariah Carey finds dieting ‘boring’

She has a figure to die-for, but Mariah Carey insists that it’s really tough to maintain her stats, because she finds fatty food fun and dieting “boring”.

The vocal queen owes her fabulous figure to a gruelling workout and a restrictive eating regime, but she reasserts that she craves for something tasty to eat.

“Working out and dieting and eating boring food. I can’t go to the barbeque spot,” Contactmusic quoted her, as saying.

However, she vouches for the fact that the diet is working, and she feels good when she is fit.

“I need to work out more. But the diet thing is what works best for me. But it’s good for health. It’s good to be healthy, yes? Everybody needs to be how ever they feel best, that’s what I think,” she said.

Binge eating then dieting risky - study

Binge eating then dieting may significantly reduce a person’s lifespan, the results of a new study indicate.

A team of Scottish researchers found that despite having no effect on body size or reproduction rate, animals given a ‘binge then diet’ food regime had a reduced lifespan of up to 25%.

The researchers from the University of Glasgow compared the growth rate, reproduction success and lifespan of stickleback fish who were given a constant amount of food every day, with those given the same overall amount of food but in a more erratic feeding pattern.

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Stages of successful weight loss

I have closely worked with clients who experienced difficulties during and after the weight loss process, and I’ve observed a consistent pattern in their thoughts and actions that could either make or break their efforts.

Dr. Daniel Kirschenbaum explains why a weight controller behaves at different stages of weight control in his book “Weight Loss Through Persistence.” The complete process might last for a year or more, depending on how a person faces each stage.

Stage 1: Honeymoon

You have a noticeably high level of motivation. You can regularly write down your food intake and exercise, and you can lose from .5 to 2 pounds every week.

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UK weight loss supplements ads deemed misleading

A weight management food supplement claiming fat-binding powers has been told to alter its marketing strategy by the UK advertising watchdog.
Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), which self-regulates the UK advertising industry, upheld seven complaints lodged against supplements manufacturer Goldshield Healthcare Direct over advertising for a product called LIPObind.

The supplement contained French supplier, Bio Serae’s Neopuntia weight loss cactus extract, and had been approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the UK as a medical device.

It also met the requirements of the European Medical Devices Directive.

Breaches

But ASA noted the Directive did not harmonise EU law relating to the advertising of medical devices.

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New weight loss titles

NEW YORK - One plan advises you to follow it three times a week. Another allows no snacks - except on certain days. And a third advocates for eating up to 20 per cent less.

All the philosophies in the latest bunch of diet books promise to help you shed the winter weight.

Here are some of the new titles, their plans and some perspective from Dawn Jackson Blatner, a registered dietitian and spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association.

The Alternate-Day Diet, Dr. James B. Johnson with Dr. Donald R. Laub Sr. (Putnam Adult)

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Is Cutting The Vagus Nerve The Answer To Weight Loss?

Last year, 200,000 Americans had weight loss surgery and while gastric bypass surgery can significantly reduce weight, the surgery comes with risks.

Now a procedure that was once commonly used to treat ulcers is being tested as a safe alternative to weight loss surgery.

Action News reporter Kimberly Tere has the details.

The vagus nerve controls your feeling of hunger.

Some even say every single thing the vagus nerve does is designed to make you gain weight.

That is why San Francisco Doctor Robert Lustig is testing laparoscopic vagotomy, a surgery in which the vagus nerve is cut.

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Caveman Diet Seen As Helping Heart And Weight Loss

Our ancestors maintained good health and enjoyed longevity as they followed a caveman’s diet that included plenty of berries, nuts, lean meat, fish and vegetables. A new study has suggested that people who want to lose weight and reduce their risk of heart disease must follow the same diet.

This means that modern day dietary necessities like cereals, dairy products and refined sugar must be abandoned. The stone-age-style diet was tested out on 20 healthy volunteers by Swedish researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Huddinge led by Dr Per Wandell.

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Magazines offer weight loss tips for moms

Just in time for Mother’s Day, the women’s magazines are full of advice for new moms struggling to lose weight. If you’ve ever wondered how semi-famous people get their bodies back so fast after giving birth, these tips will give you an idea.
More veggies, fish oil for Trista

Trista Sutter first became known to the world as Trista Rehn, the first-even “Bachelorette.” After marrying her man in 2003, she gave birth nine months ago and has since lost 30 pounds.

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HEALTH BRIEFS: Bank on weight loss

Bank on weight loss

Still struggling to shed pounds? Have your spouse offer you a cash prize.

A 3-month study by the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina found that dieters given just $14 per downtick in their body weight percentage lost a pound more each month than those not offered any incentive. They were also more than five times as likely to shed 5 percent of their body weight.

Antioxidants by the bunch

In search of a snack? Grab some grapes. According to a recent study, they may help prevent colon cancer, the third most common type in the United States.

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Stay on Track with Grandma’s Ten Commandments for Healthy Weight Loss

Weight loss goals can seem unattainable with the road blocks that our everyday lives can create. Hectic schedules can force us to eat unhealthy on the go and everyday stress can tempt us to reach for a candy bar instead of a banana. With this in mind, weight loss expert Grandma Bev Grey offers a list of wall-mountable rules to live by when the going gets tough which is available for download at www.grandmashealthykidsclub.com.

Grey developed the Ten Commandments of Healthy Weight Loss as portable tip sheet that will reminds us of weight loss goals even in the most trying situations. Post it on a refrigerator door, bathroom mirror or in the break room at work to keep weight loss efforts focused and reduce the risk of “cheating.”

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Fitness and Weight Loss Help on Zipidee

Zipidee, an online digital marketplace, announced that instructional videos designed to help viewers of all ages stay healthy, young, and active are now available for download. Video and audio content featuring expert tips on nutrition, fitness, and weight loss are available on-demand on the Zipidee site.

Internationally known television cooking personality and award-winning author Graham Kerr shares his expert opinion on nutrition and healthy living in his “Graham Kerr Lifestyle” series. In “A ‘Weighty’ Issue,” Kerr discusses information from the National Weight Registry on people who have successfully kept off weight they lost. Viewers get an inside perspective of weight loss and strategies to maintain their new weight.

We Cook The Food . . . You Lose The Weight!

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Study participants ’shocked’ by new weight loss test

A new weight-loss shock therapy treatment is currently being tested at Scripps Clinic Nutrition and Metabolic Research Center in California.

The treatment involves no diet, no exercise, no pills and no surgery.

The first FDA human trial of Entero-Medics V-BLOC therapy is under way.

A device inserted beneath the skin emits electronic impulses that essentially block the signals that tell you you’re hungry.

It targets the Vagus nerve, which sends hunger signals to your stomach.

The device is designed to interrupt the signal with a painless electric shock.

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Web site offers free weight-loss support

These days, there are Web sites devoted to just about everything, including weight loss.
SparkPeople.com is one such site that provides advice and support free of charge.

With headquarters in Cincinnati, it started about seven years ago as a general goal-setting Web site founded by Chris Downie, after he found financial freedom by selling another Web site he had founded, up4sale.com, to eBay.

“Once that had given him financial freedom, his goal was to help millions of people reach their own goals,” said Grant Miller of SparkPeople from his Los Angeles office.

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Blocking Brain Enzyme for Weight Loss

Scientists say they have found a simple way to promote weight loss, reduce appetite and improve blood sugar levels. It’s a brain enzyme called CaMKK2 in mice that, when blocked, has all of these health benefits.

“We believe we have identified an important drug development target that could potentially turn into a metabolic triple play: appetite control, weight loss and blood sugar management,” Tony Mean, Ph.D., a Nanaline H. Duke Professor and Chairman of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, was quoted as saying.

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URAC Honors SENSEI For Weight Loss™ During Its Best Practices In Consumer Empowerment Awards

Sensei, Inc. (http://www.senseicorp.com), a Humana joint venture, was among 22 healthcare industry leaders honored during URAC’s Best Practices in Consumer Empowerment and Protection Awards competition. The nationwide competition attracted entries detailing innovative and proven programs that are empowering consumers to be more active participants in their health care. Other Winners included, Aetna, Inc., BlueCross BlueShield and Eli Lilly and Company.

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Your Exercise May Be Causing You to Overeat!

It has almost become cliché, the statement reading, “All you need to do to lose weight is eat less and move more!” Everyone in the world knows that eating less is the best policy when trying to lose weight, but moving more seems to be the hurdle that causes the weight loss or diet plan to fall off the wagon again and again. But, what if I told you that exercise was causing you to lose less weight?

Most people exercise early in the morning on an empty stomach. Maybe this is because they have read somewhere that the morning is the tight time to exercise or that the only free time in the day is during the morning. Whatever the reason, exercising on an empty stomach, fresh and early can wreak havoc on your stomach. Exercise burns calories and will make you more hungry after the workout. Paired with the euphoric state the body enters into after prolonged exercise (often as little as 30 to 45 minutes) can lead to overeating.

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Can fat people survive in the public eye?

national dementia over swimmer Grant Hackett’s non-existent pot belly and teeny-tiny actress Mischa Barton’s “horrific” cellulite you have to wonder where popular culture’s fat schizophrenia is going to lead us.

It’s no news-flash that Australians are bigger than ever but why are we taking to task Olympic athletes and 22-year-old, size 8 waifs for blubber that’s not even there?

The net effect may be that many people who have weight conditions will just shrug and give up on dieting and exercise - saying to themselves, “well, if he’s fat and he swims 50km a day and she’s fat and she’s a superstar with a personal trainer and chef, what chance do I have?”

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On the go? Learn to make smart snacking choices

What do you do when you’re on the road, in the air, or at a rest stop — and you’re ravenous? Real Simple magazine shares helpful advice on how to make the best, healthiest choices:

Vending machines

Best picks: A small bag of plain pretzels — not honey-mustard or any other flavor, which can add fat. “Pretzels are a satisfying, low-fat crunch without any trans fats or added sugar, and the single-serving-size bag means you get built-in portion control,” says Keri Glassman, a registered dietitian in New York City and the author of “The Snack Factor Diet” (Crown, $20, www.amazon.com).

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Slim chances for weight loss

With bikini season looming on the horizon, many women are turning to drastic measures to get their bods beach-ready. But when your trusty magazines feed you sketchy slimming tricks like “stop swallowing air,” what’s a woman to believe?

“I always tell my clients that if any of this actually worked, it would be the cover story everywhere,” says Betty Kovacs at the New York Obesity Research Center’s Weight Loss Program in St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital. Kovacs and Self magazine’s diet and nutrition editor Erin Hobday weighed in on eight of the most outrageous ideas in weight-loss in order to separate the “fat” from the fiction.

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What is Obesity

The fat may be equally distributed around the body or concentrated on the stomach (apple-shaped) or the hips and thighs (pear-shaped). For medical purposes, the body mass index (BMI) is used to determine if your weight is in the healthy range. Doctors use BMI because it compares your weight against your height.

Work out your BMI
The BMI figures used in this article apply to adults only.
Doctors use special charts to work out BMI for children to take account of differing rates of growth and development.

Take your weight (kg) and divide it by the square of your height (m).

For example, if you weigh 80kg and are 1.7m:
1. Multiply your height by itself 1.7×1.7=2.89
2. Divide your weight by this figure.
3. 80 ÷ 2.89= 27.7kg/m2.
27.7 is the BMI.
•You are in the normal range if your BMI is between 18.5 and 25 (kg/m2).
•You are overweight if your BMI is between 25 and 30.
•You are obese if your BMI is 30 or higher.
•You are morbidly obese if your BMI is 40 or higher.

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Atkins Diet Myths Busted

The following is a reprint from “Controlled Carbohydrate Nutrition”:

Facts and Myths about the Atkins lifestyle

It is common to hear misinformation about the Atkins lifestyle from almost everyone. What is fact and what is fiction? Many people have been discouraged from continuing to follow this program even when they have been successful losing weight, feeling better and improving their risk factors by uninformed or deliberately misleading comments.

How many people have regained their weight because of giving up the only program that worked for them or that they could follow long term?

Educating people about the facts is what is needed to dispel the many incorrect statements made by medical people, well meaning but uneducated friends or family and of course the media who sensationalizes and cherry-picks what it will report about Atkins.

Providing education and research data can go along way to demonstrating that a low carb way of eating is a safe, effective and healthy way of life. Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach, low carb deserves to be considered a healthy choice if we are to address the ever increasing numbers of people with obesity and its complications.

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Some Weight-Loss Drugs Might Disrupt Brain Growth in Kids

WEDNESDAY, May 7 (HealthDay News) — A new class of weight-loss drugs that suppresses appetite by blocking cannabinoid receptors in the brain should be used with caution in children, U.S. scientists report.

In research with mice, they found this class of drugs also suppresses the adaptive rewiring of the brain necessary for neural development in young animals. The findings are in the May 8 issue ofNeuron.

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Ingredients Used In Nite Trim The Weight Loss Supplement

NiteTrim - Ingredients In NiteTrim Weight Loss Supplement Having heard all the good things about Nite Trim. There has been lots of questions, like what are all the ingredients that create Nite Trim? It is such a radical discovery in human findings. Nite Trim will make a lot of women and men much happier than ever.Because Nite Trim is a brand-new weight loss supplement that is presently the only weight loss formula to successfully blend an anti-oxidant with real South African Hoodia. Lots of people ask what is hoodia and what does it do? It’s an appetite killer, completely natural that will also assist you in loosing weight with definitely zero side effects.

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Blocked Brain Enzyme Decreases Appetite And Promotes Weight Loss

ScienceDaily (May 7, 2008) — Imagine being able to tone down appetite and promote weight loss, while improving the body’s ability to handle blood sugar levels.

That’s just what Tony Means, PhD, and his team at the Duke University Medical Center were able to do when they blocked a brain enzyme, CaMKK2, in mice.

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Weight Loss Weapon
Carb-cutting Enzyme Stopped By Bean Extract, Endocrinologists Say

UCLA researchers have found an extract in white kidney beans may help the body stop carbs from breaking down into sugars. A digestive enzyme in the body normally acts like scissors, literally cutting starches into little sugars. Phase 2 stops the enzyme from cutting, so the starches stay in the body as long fibers and are burned off quicker. Patients in the clinical studies who took Phase 2 lost body fat, not lean muscle.

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N.H. House votes to mandate weight-loss surgery

CONCORD, N.H. - The New Hampshire House has voted to require insurance companies to pay for bariatric surgery as an option in treating diseases and ailments caused by obesity.

The House rejected a move to study the coverage Wednesday then backed arguments that the surgery ultimately pays for itself because the patients who undergo it are healthier as a result. The House voted 209-139 to send the bill to Gov. John Lynch, who says he will review it.

Those pushing for more study had said they recognize the surgery has benefits, but also carries costs and risks and needed to be studied before being mandated.

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Shinn outed for month over weight-loss drug

GAI Waterhouse’s stable jockey Blake Shinn has been suspended for a month by Racing NSW stewards after proving positive to the banned stimulant ephedrine.

The 22-year-old former Victorian leads the Sydney jockeys’ premiership with 57 winners with another Waterhouse rider, Nash Rawiller, second on 49.

“It is pretty upsetting,” Shinn said. “All I want to say is I’ve made a terrible mistake. I’ve learnt the hard way and it will never happen again.”

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American weighing in at 640 pounds starts China weight loss journey

TIANJIN, May 6 (Xinhua) — Alonzo Bland, a 640-pound man from the United States, arrived at a weight-loss hospital in this northern port city early on Tuesday to start a one-year weight loss journey in China.

Bland, 32, standing 182 centimeters high, is from Green Bay, Wisconsin. He won a national contest, Winners in Life, sponsored by a company called China Connection. The prize is one year of free treatment in China.

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Even After Weight Loss, Fat Cells Remain

Adults have about the same number of fat cells in their body constantly, even after losing a significant amount of weight, Swedish researchers say.

Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, made their determination by studying fat samples from liposuction and abdominal reconstruction surgery in lean and obese volunteers, leading them to conclude that the number of fat cells is determined in childhood.

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Using the Concept of Muscle Confusion for Weight Loss

When embarking upon a weight loss journey, there will be hills to climb and plateaus to cross. Some days the scale will not be your friend and others you will want to fall on the floor and kiss that small piece of electronic equipment. The key to kissing the scale everyday during your weight loss adventure is the concept of muscle confusion.

Utilized by bodybuilders, muscle confusion centers on the concept of keeping the muscles guessing all the time in order to see the greatest gains. Everyone who is trying a new weight loss plan, will know the importance of exercise in the plan. Exercise burns calories and creating negative calories means weight loss; the ultimate goal of a weight loss program.

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Regular scuba diving said to promote weight loss

An article in the UK newspaper publication, The Guardian, has published an article giving facts about calorie burning during a scuba dive. They provide the following information, which suggests that regular scuba diving can assist/promote weight loss and increase in strength and general fitness.

Shapely legs: Swimming with fins (flippers) is like water-based weight-training - firming the front of the thighs as you kick down and the back of the thighs as you kick up.

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Blocked brain enzyme decreases appetite and promotes weight loss

DURHAM, N.C. – Imagine being able to tone down appetite and promote weight loss, while improving the body’s ability to handle blood sugar levels.

That’s just what Tony Means, PhD, and his team at the Duke University Medical Center were able to do when they blocked a brain enzyme, CaMKK2, in mice.

“We believe we have identified an important drug development target that could potentially turn into a metabolic triple play: appetite control, weight loss and blood sugar management,“ said Means, who is the Nanaline H. Duke Professor and Chairman of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology.

For many years, scientists have been identifying and testing every step of the appetite stimulation and suppression pathways in search of a target. Such research is considered critical to finding ways for people to better control their weight and minimize their risk of developing diabetes, heart disease and other health conditions.

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Spa of Weight Loss for Life

Still on the subject of weight-loss, here’s nutritionist Amanda Hamilton handing out the wheat grass juice: “Diets don’t work. Detox does.”

Overhauling your body and your life in just five days sounds tempting. The word “spa” conjures up visions of pampered luxury but, at the place where our five overweight Brits check in, the emphasis is more on coffee enemas than fluffy bathrobes and whale music.

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Weight loss all in the mind

Forget counting calories, new research has found losing weight is all in the mind.

An Otago University study has found ‘non-dieting’ interventions can be effective in reducing psychological distress and medical symptoms in women who are overweight.

Researcher Caroline Horwath says the new approach takes the focus off body weight and instead gets women to listen to their own body signals. She says it focuses on improving lifestyle behaviours to enhance health independently of weight loss.

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Fat chance: A diet pill won’t make you thin

When the fat-blocker Alli hit pharmacy shelves last June, hopeful consumers stampeded for the first government-approved over-the-counter weight-loss drug. But it didn’t take long for the troublesome side effects such as not being able to control your bowels, and the lack of real weight loss for some, to convince many dieters that Alli wasn’t the sole answer to their weight problems.

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More People Choosing Prevention Over Pills

Elliott Colasanto was tired of giving pills to customers for conditions that he was certain could be improved, perhaps even eliminated, through diet.

But the pharmacist and owner of Beacon Pharmacy in Southington didn’t have time to do the kind of nutritional counseling that he knew was necessary to help his customers.

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Save your money, forget about diet pills

MSNBC took a look into the effectiveness of diet pills recently and found that, on their own, diet pills won’t make you thin. Despite the reality that diet pills aren’t magic bullets, the drug industry is set to roll out almost 15 new diet pills in the next few years! Many experts agree that diet pills can be used in tandem with exercise to make a difference, but taking them alone is only an exercise in futility.

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Even After Weight Loss, Fat Cells Remain

Slimming Down Makes Fat Cells Smaller, but Doesn’t Get Rid of Them

There might be new vindication for those who claim the “big-boned” defense for being overweight, a new study shows.

Adults have about the same number of fat cells in their body constantly, even after losing a significant amount of weight, Swedish researchers say.

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Dairy Products Do Not Help in Weight Loss: Research

Obesity and over-weight are common issues that many try and battle. The solution is either through diet, supplements, vitamins, ayurvedic medicines or through workouts in the gym, morning walks etc. Who wouldn’t want to shed weight easily?

A scientific review from the journal Nutrition Reviews has revealed that people who consume dairy products with the belief that dairy products apparently end up gaining weight or show no effect with respect to body weight or body fat. The observational studies have found that a dairy product actually leads to weight gain. This was found by researchers Amy Joy Lanou of the University of North Carolina at Asheville and Neal Barnard with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington, DC by assessing 49 clinical trials from 1966 to 2007 on the dilemma of loosing weight.

Out of the 49 randomized controlled studies, 2 showed weight gain and 41 showed no effect. The advertisements which display that dairy products help in losing weight are somewhere untrue. Researchers have issued a warning stating that the dairy products and other calcium food items would not help you shed weight; instead you could end up gaining weight.

Amy Joy Lanou, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and the lead author of the new paper said, “A thorough analysis of the scientific literature shows that dairy industry claims about weight loss have no factual basis”. Amy added, “Consumers who see ads featuring slim celebrities and add dairy to their diets in hopes of losing weight are likely to gain weight instead. Even children who consume low-fat milk are at risk for unhealthy weight gain”.

This study is going to directly affect multimillion-dollar dairy industry and advertising campaigns like those by Brooke Shields, Glenn Close and other celebrities.

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Sabinsa builds science behind weight loss blend

Sabinsa’s weight management ingredient, LeanGard, may boost weight loss and cut body fat, according to a new study from the company that builds the science behind the product.

Supplementation with the proprietary ingredient blend led to 6.4 per cent greater weight loss, and a 6.97 greater loss of body fat than placebo, according to results from the randomised, double blind, parallel-controlled study.

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New Weight Loss Talk Radio Premiere Bumped Up Due To Overwhelming Listener Demand

May 5, 2008 — Becoming Thin Within, Internet Radio’s Unique Perspective on Weight Loss with host, Deborah J. Wright broadcasting from outside Nashville, TN, on TalkZone.com talk radio was slated to premiere on June 1, 2008 alongside Nashville’s first bi-annual Bridal Fit Challenge. However, once the announcement of this no-nonsense, fun, unique and exciting new internet radio show reached anxious listeners and loyal followers of Wright’s blog, Daily Dose of Deb (www.dailydoseofdeb.com), the Emails, sponsorships and guest requests started pouring in, so Wright decided to move up the premiere to May 15, 2008.

What makes this radio show so unique starts with the host, Deborah J. Wright, who is an entrepreneur (Owner of The Hungry Heart, www.hungryheart.org, Nashville which provides a caring approach to out-of-control-eating) and author of a wildly popular weight loss and management blog called Daily Dose of Deb. More importantly, however, Wright is a reformed yo-yo dieter who truly relates to and “gets” her clients and listeners on an emotional level which is why her followers respond so well to her practical and honest advice.

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Weight-loss school changes the course of teen’s life

The kids at Carol Oocumma’s school used to call her “Earthquake.”

The tall teenager with dark brown hair and deep brown eyes would seek comfort from the teasing by raiding the refrigerator.

She would spend afternoons eating leftover fry bread and fried chicken as she watched TV, and sneak candy bars into her room after her family had gone to bed.

By the time Oocumma reached eighth grade and enrolled in September at Wellspring Academy, a weight-loss boarding school in Brevard, N.C., she carried 270 pounds on her 5-foot-8 frame.

Oocumma’s story is not so different from many children in the United States, where more than one-third of children are either obese or at risk of becoming obese, putting them at increased risk for diabetes, hypertension and stroke, among other diseases.

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2,700 pounds and counting: 20 people celebrate major weight loss

Kelly Remocal lost 200 pounds. Rick Stout lost 121 pounds. Sandi Moore lost 140 and Becky George lost 240.

It took guts to stand in front of a standing-room-only audience and share personal tales of weight loss success. But 20 people who were once morbidly obese did just that Wednesday night. They were applauded and cheered by friends, family and people considering such major weight loss themselves.

They are women and men, various ages and lifestyles, who have had gastric bypass or LapBand surgery. Together, they have lost more than 2,700 pounds.

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Bariatric surgery is no cure for diabetes

As obesity and being overweight become the new normal in our society, many Americans are turning to weight-loss surgery.

Some weight-loss surgeries might be considered more drastic than others based on whether sections of the stomach and intestine are removed versus an adjustable band placed around the stomach to reduce its size. The different surgeries offer greater or lesser degrees of weight loss.

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Star Moms’ Weight-Loss Secrets

When it comes to losing weight after having a baby, most celebrities don’t mess around.

Blink and you may miss the time it takes many famous new moms to make the transition from bulging baby bump to red carpet ready.

That can be frustrating for the typical woman to watch. After all, she may not have quite the same resources available to the stars but wants just as badly to reclaim her body.

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He woke up to a big problem and shed 100 pounds

Randy Eilering of Arlington Heights, Ill., knew he had to lose weight when he woke up one day and struggled to get out of bed, feeling big and awkward. He was only 25 at the time.

That day he got up, got dressed and went to the gym.

“That started it all,” says Eilering, 29. “It was Monday, the week of Thanksgiving. In hindsight, it is the worst time to ever start a diet, but it really helped me with my discipline.”

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He has lost 100 pounds since November 2003 and has kept it off, ending a long cycle that he describes as “a combination of eating too much, not eating the right foods and not exercising.” He now competes in marathons and triathlons.

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Future Of Weight Loss Could Include Non-Invasive Techniques

Sticking to a weight loss plan can be difficult. With all of the food and drink temptations tempting us around every corner, it can be tough to stay low carb, low sugar and low fat. But sometimes, the weight still won’t come off, despite diet exercise. That’s where outside help comes in.

A procedure that was once commonly used to treat ulcers, called a vagotomy, is now being tested as a safe weight loss surgery. Doctors have modified the procedure so that it is safe and side effects are minimal — and they’ve also made it a laparoscopic procedure.

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Local Trainer Caught Using ‘tct’ To Enhance Weight Loss In His Miami Clients

No screaming, no yelling, no cardio and a ton of moving. South Florida Fitness Boot Camps (http://www.SouthFloridaFitnessBootCamp.com )are the only one using “tct” in South Florida, and the results prove it works. Traditionally fitness boot camps are viewed a strenuous exercise routines lead by some military type instructor and are often feared. There is running, some basic exercise, an instructor in your face yelling at you and calling you names and then there is more running. This type of fitness boot camp delivers a workout, but does it deliver weight loss results?

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A moment on the lips…

… And, indeed, a lifetime on the hips

You may never truly beat the bulge, a new study suggests. Even when people lose weight, they don’t lose fat cells. The cells just shrink.

A Cold War relic helped researchers in Sweden and their colleagues figure out the birth dates of fat cells in adults. Tracking the birthdays of belly-building cells uncovered some mixed news. First, the good news — adults loose about 10 percent of fat cells each year. But the bad news is that all those cells are replaced.

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Diets don’t work, new study shows

New research has confirmed what many women trying to lose weight already suspected, diets do not work. Otago University researchers found that overweight and obese women were more likely to improve their health through treatment approaches that did not rely on just counting calories.

Their study showed that “non-dieting” interventions could be effective in reducing psychological distress . The findings appeared in the latest edition of the American Journal of Health Promotion.

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Free Diet support community launches today aimed at ending Obesity.

St. Louis, MO–America’s Weight Loss Coach, Julia Havey launches new, totally free Weight Loss Social Network at Ning. www.JuliaHavey.com www.JPSupplement.com www.DrinkChooseLive.com

“With obesity at an all time high in our nation, we have to provide effective weight loss tools that anyone can access, regardless of their ability to pay. The most effective of these free tools is peer support. Setting up an online community where people with similar situations and common goals can interact and encourage each other creates an almost magical synergy” said Julia Havey
The project launched at Ning, the leader of personalized social networking, will reach millions of people and help those people lose combined 10’s of thousands of pounds. Now is the most exciting time to be online.

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Milan rallies to lose weight

MILAN - Tony Dean is known as the Meanest Man in Dieting.

But his stern weight-loss accountability and partnering program could make Milan one of the healthiest cities in the country.

Mr. Dean, 37, and his father, Mike, 61, drove 12 hours from Omaha, Neb., Friday night to bring their FAST Diet program to Discover Milan Day on Saturday at Wilson Park. FAST is an acronym for “Families Always Succeed Together,” but the program doesn’t have as much to do with family as it does with hard work, sensible eating and accountability with friends and neighbors.

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Learning to look out for number one

Wellness coach helps bring the overstressed back from the brink to a more fulfilling life focused on health and well-being
Chris Zdeb, Canwest News Service
Published: Saturday, May 03, 2008

Peters sees Pelletier-Hannah every week. Kristi Jarmus, on the other hand, completed the coach’s 12-week weight and wellness program without ever meeting her.

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Walking program full of hot air

USA Today’s Nanci Helmich continues to be one of the most prolific, interesting and valuable health reporters in the US. On May 1, she took up the subject of interval training and “supercharged” walking that is raised by Arthur Agatston, who wrote The South Beach Diet, and University of Miami exercise physiology professor Joseph Signorile, in their new book, The South Beach Diet Supercharged.

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Valley women share stories of weight loss

It’s not hard to find someone to share a weight-loss story.

With Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics for 2006 indicating an adult obesity rate of 25 to 29 percent for Wisconsin, people with such tales to tell abound. No, the difficulty comes in unearthing a story with a happy ending, in which the main character overcomes challenges to reach her goal weight, often after a lifetime of struggle.

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Fat chance: A diet pill won’t make you thin

When the fat-blocker Alli hit pharmacy shelves last June, hopeful consumers stampeded for the first government-approved over-the-counter weight-loss drug. But it didn’t take long for the troublesome side effects such as not being able to control your bowels, and the lack of real weight loss for some, to convince many dieters that Alli wasn’t the sole answer to their weight problems.

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New Scientific Review Shows Dairy Products Do Not Help Weight Loss

WASHINGTON—A new scientific review in May’s peer-reviewed journal Nutrition Reviews shows that people who consume dairy products are likely to gain weight or show no effect in terms of body weight or body fat. Two large observational studies led by Harvard researchers, one including 12,829 adolescents and the other involving more than 19,000 adult men, found that dairy consumption is linked to weight gain.

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DJ new face of weight loss group

One of the most recognisable voices in the Waikato, Hamilton radio DJ Nick Trott, has stepped out from behind the microphone to front one of the world’s most well-known weight-loss programmes.

The More FM breakfast announcer will be the face of New Zealand’s new Jenny Craig promotional campaign, which begins on Monday, alongside netballer Vilimaina Davu.

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Be a bunch of losers

THE first-ever Community Weight Loss Challenge will be held in Malaysia from May 6 onwards in Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur.

The idea is for all participants to get healthier and lose weight over a 12-week period.

There will be information on a range of topics like calories, nutrition and exercise.

The concept of the community driven event started in the United States, where it has been an enormous success before it spread to Australia and now starting in Malaysia.

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Weight loss possible ‘when self-belief is high’

Melbourne (PTI): If you are what you eat, what you eat has a lot to do with how you think about yourself, for a study has revealed that weight loss is possible when one’s self-belief is actually high.

Researchers at the Queensland University of Technology have carried out the study and found that self-efficacy has a strong influence on a woman’s decision to do more exercise or eat more healthily.

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Khaliah Ali Speaks at CIBO Clinic’s Lose Weight For Life Forum

Three years ago Muhammad Ali’s daughter Khaliah weighed 325 pounds. After trying countless diets she finally decided to have a new type of laparoscopic procedure done called lap banding. Since then, Khaliah has shared her story with the world.

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‘Why Weight?’ challenge ends, but who won?

The 12-week medical weight loss program ended a couple weeks ago. Kirk Mason, Cari Peugeot and Kelli Cheatham all survived the Why Weight? challenge and the friendly competition that came with it.
At the beginning of their journey, Memorial Bariatric & Weight Loss Dr. Scott Eschowsky said most of the country would be considered overweight right now.

“Up to 2/3 of people are actually overweight,” he said.

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